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“Part memoir, part Jewish homily, part how-to manual, 'Business Mensch' tells the tale of a scrappy Jewish kid from Boston who hit the jackpot with Noah’s Bagels.”—JWEEKLY.COM

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Con RespetoBridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: an Ethnographic Portrait

by Guadalupe Valdes
This is the story of ten Mexican immigrant families and of how each goes about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world. It describes how the parents prepare their children for a rapidly changing world so as to become competent adults.Item:080773526

What if the company you work for could control your mind?
Only weeks remain before Lectures and More, Inc., a company representing the world’s top motivational speakers, launches its latest technological advance: a mind-altering radio frequency device sold as a work-site enhancement product. The deceptively altruistic Ulrich Rogers spearheads the company and its reeducation programs, incorporating the presentational prowess and charm of Jennifer Chance, a world-renowned motivational speaker. But as the lies that make up her life begin to unravel like threads on a poorly sewn garment, it becomes evident that nothing is as it seems.
Jennifer alone holds the key to unveil Rogers’s plot to hold America hostage using Lectures and More’s newest device. Plunged into a twisting chase to escape the clutches of Rogers and his former espionage henchmen, Jennifer seeks help from Frank Revere, an enigmatic former government counterintelligence agent. But the question of who to trust continues to dangle in Jennifer’s mind. Thousands of lives hang in the balance, but a deeper deception lurks in the shadows …
Brimming with suspense, danger, and mystery, Deadly Exchange conjures up a blend of the ordinary, the arcane, the seen, and the unseen in the search for truth.Item:059542046

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HOLLYWOOD BUZZby Margit Liesche
Liesche's engaging second Pucci Lewis mystery (after 2007's Lipstick and Lies) takes the WWII WASP (Women Air Force Service pilot) to Hollywood, where one of her sister pilots, Frankie Beall, has crashed under suspicious circumstances while shooting an important training film. As the injured Beall's replacement, Lewis must complete the film and quietly investigate the crash. Trained by the OSS, Lewis is no stranger to undercover work and relishes the opportunity to rub shoulders with Hollywood's rich and famous. On her arrival at the Beverly Hills mansion of friends of her WASP commander, she meets legendary scare-meister Bela Lugosi, a young starlet-wannabe and a number of other folks who could be friend or foe. The murder of a celebrated director raises the stakes. Liesche provides plenty of interesting WASP lore while deftly mixing the real and imagined. Though the plot can be hard to follow at times, it moves along at a good clip. (Mar.)

The Man Who Made Pluto Vanish, Wall Street Journal
"Mr. Brown's brisk, enjoyable How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming chronicles the whole saga and, in the process, makes Pluto's sad fate easier to take. If we've lost a planet, we've gained a sprightly new voice for popular science." -- James Kennedy, author of The Order of Odd-Fish

India Calling~ An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking ~
by Anand Giridharadas

India was erupting in dreams.

It was the dream to own a microwave or refrigerator or motorcycle. The dream of a roof of one’s own. The dream to break caste. The dream to bring a cellphone to every Indian with someone to call. The dream to buy out businesses in the kingdom that once colonized you. The dream to marry for love, all the complicated family considerations be damned. The dream to become rich. The dream to overthrow the rich in revolution.

These dreams were by turns farsighted and farfetched, practical and impractical, generous and selfish, principled and cynical, focused and vague, passionate and drifting. They were tempered by countervailing dreams and, as ever in India, by the dogged pull of the past. Some were changing India palpably; others had no chance from the beginning. But that was never the point. It was the very existence of such brazen, unapologetic dreams, and their diffuse flowering from one end of India to the other, that so decisively separated the present from the past – and separated the India my parents had left from the India to which I had now returned.

The Indian revolution was within. It was a revolution in private life, in the tenor of emotions and the nature of human relationships. The very fabric of Indianness – the meaning of being a husband or wife, a factory owner or factory worker, a mother-in-law or daughter-in-law, a student or teacher – was slowly, gently unraveling by the force of these dreams, and allowing itself to be woven in new ways.

This is the propulsive thriller that reveals the disturbing truths hidden behind the headlines. A thriller only former CIA operative turned bestselling novelist Barry Eisler could have written, and a story that urgently needs to be understood.

Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Scott Horton, who explains the price of Ben's release: find and eliminate Daniel Larison, a rogue operator from Ben's unit who has stolen ninety-two torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the US government. But other players are after the tapes, too, and to find Larison, Ben will have to survive CIA hit teams, Blackwater mercenaries, and the long reach of the White House. He'll also have to find a way to handle Paula Lanier, a smart, sexy FBI agent who has her own reasons for wanting the tapes and is determined to get them before Ben does. With the stakes this high, everyone has an angle—everyone but Ben, who will have to find the right alliance if he wants to stay alive.

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It's About Excellence:Building Ethically Healthy Organizationsby David Gill
David W. Gill is a veteran business ethics educator, writer, and consultant, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among his clients have been Harris & Associates (construction and project management), East Bay Municipal Utility District (regional water district), Paradise Foods (retail grocer), Nikon Precision (technology), Swedish Covenant Hospital (health care), and UNext.com (online business education). For these and other clients, Gill provides ethics training and leads projects to develop ethics and values statements and codes, communication, training, and assessment programs. David was educated at UC Berkeley (B.A.), San Francisco State (M.A.), and the University of Southern California (Ph.D.) and has been professor of ethics for three decades. He currently teaches ethics to MBA students at St. Mary s College in northern California. His EthixBizine Monthly (visit EthixBiz.com for details) is a free business ethics resource widely read by business leaders and managers as well as business students and faculty.Item:193077134

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Latinnovating~Green American Jobs and the Latinos Creating Them~
by Graciela Tiscareño-Sato.

For students and career changers, Latinnovating is the first book to showcase Latino-led innovation in the green economy. These ten stories of highly educated leaders, across their success. You can begin - or continue - your career as if our planet matters. Hopefully, you too will question unsustainable industrial and social practices and be empowered by these courageous examples. Perhaps you will become a force of change to benefit the environment and the economy. These innovators are Latinos; the opportunities they're creating benefit all.Item:098347600

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LOST KINGDOMHawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
by Julia Flynn Siler